How to add banner or slider in magento 2.1.1 home page and how to create custom theme? [duplicate]

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Please explain both question in detail:

How to add slider in home page. I want to keep homepage banner slider, so please suggest for banner slider in magento 2.

How to create custom theme in magento. How to create custom theme in magento 2, give me list of files and step to create theme.

Answer 1

Homepage Banner Slider: Find Banner slider from magento marketplace from link here Marketplace site,

Theme create:

You can get reference from magento docs, Create Magento theme

Theme structure for magento 2:

app/design/frontend/
├── <Vendorname>/
│   │   ├── <themename>/  
│   │   │   ├── ...web
│   │   │   │   ├── ...css
│   │   │   │   ├── ...images
│   │   │   │   ├── ...js
│   │   │   ├── registration.php
│   │   │   ├── theme.xml

You have to just create theme inside folder app/design/frontend/Vendorname/themename

You have to get files from core theme blank or luma and set your parent theme inside your theme file.

You have to copy files and folder from magento2/vendor/magento/theme-frontend-luma or magento2/vendor/magento/theme-frontend-blank based on your parent theme.

Required files is, registration.php file,

<?php
/**
 * Copyright © 2015 Magento. All rights reserved.
 * See COPYING.txt for license details.
 */

\Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::register(
    \Magento\Framework\Component\ComponentRegistrar::THEME,
    'frontend/Vendor/themename',
    __DIR__
);

theme.xml

keep below code,

<theme xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Config/etc/theme.xsd">
    <title>Custom Theme</title>
    <parent>Magento/luma</parent>
</theme>

Get web folder from parent theme to your current theme.

After Getting required files and folder, Run command through cmd,

First run command for deployment,

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

Remove var folder from root.

Now you have to set theme from Magento admin panel.

Go To admin panel left side menu,

Content -> Design -> Configuration

Click on Your main website store link and set your theme from here.